Events

Monday, November 5

Teacher Symposium, held in collaboration the Utah State Office of Education, is a professional development program that brings 7-12 science teachers to USU’s Center for Integrated BioSystems for one-day. The program allows teachers to be students again, offering them information on cutting-edge developments in science, and hands-on time in the laboratory

Swaner is excited to announce that it will be selling tickets to Park City Mountain Resort for its Benefit Days. Tickets are $25 dollars each. Maximum of 4 tickets per person and you can only get tickets in person. Tickets go on sale on Oct. 15 and will continue to sell until there are no more. The proceeds made will be used to support more community education programs. For more information, please call 435-649-1767 x 0 or swanerecocenter@usu.edu

This exhibit will be shown in conjunction with the 11th Biennial Jack London Society Symposium held in Logan, Utah, and co-sponsored by the USU Department of English and the USU Libraries' Special Collections and Archives Division. The symposium is scheduled October 4-6, 2012, but this exhibit will be on display in the museum's Upstairs Gallery throughout the fall. Featuring majestic landscape photos by Ansel Adams and Brett Weston, the exhibit explores the rugged, historical, and dangerous qualities of the western world portrayed in Jack London's writing. Certain drawings and photographs in the exhibit will be on display in the museum for the first time, and they will help explore literary themes of naturalism, courage, modern American values, and man's precarious relationship to his natural environment.

The Little Naturalist Program is coming again for 3-5 year olds. It is held every 1st and 3rd Monday of the month. Cost is $2 per family or $15 for an 8 program punch pass. Our next event is Nov. 5 from 10-11 a.m. We will do a reading of "Moose's Morning" by Pamela Love and "What Use is a Moose" by Martin Waddell. Also, learn about moose and make a moose mask. For more information call 435-649-1767 x 0 or swanerecocenter@usu.edu

By Megan Mitchell. Fences, doors and windows indicate an intersection between inside and outside, public and private. These porous boundaries provide enclosure while also allowing access to an outside world. I am drawn to these divisions in space both as aesthetic and metaphorical objects. They are the point of departure for an exploration of the intersection between real and imagined worlds. 'Landscape and Lace: Cache Valley' juxtaposes the structural framework of a fence with a landscape inspired by Cache Valley. My intention is to provide a sense of both containment and spaciousness. The piece also contains a decorative element which is derived from a sample of lace. I use this pattern to further the dialog between inner and outer spaces.

Good Neighbors by Todd Hayes features a seven-foot-tall wooden fence enclosing a seven-by-twelve foot plot. After a futile search for a gate, viewers peer through the small slit openings & spy a small porcelain house standing in a yard comprised of salt. The house is a mid-century ranch style house, exactly the kind that sprang up in suburban developments around the country after World War II. Though good fences may make good neighbors—as the saying goes—this fence completely cuts off any relationship to the outside world.

Come learn how healthcare affects providers, patients, and the economy with guest speaker Andrew Croshaw, former senior adviser to Secretary Mike Leavitt of the Department of Health and Human Services.

We are attempting to break the Guinness World Record in speed dating. Every person will have the chance to win date-night giveaways. This will include events, restaurant gift cards, etc. Come join us at the TSC Ballroom at 6PM.